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Abstract #3226

Ultrashort TE 3D Gradient-Echo Imaging of Human Knee at 3T

Jang-Yeon Park1, Ute Goerke1, Steen Moeller1, Eddie Auerbach1, Jutta Ellermann1, Michael Garwood1

1Center for Magnetic Resonance Research and Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States


Although UTE and SWIFT have the advantage in imaging ultrashort T2 species, it can be challenging to implement them on clinical scanners due to high technical demands. Recently, we proposed a new ultrashort TE 3D gradient-echo imaging that can effectively cover TE range of > ~0.2 ms, which was dubbed SWIFT-LiTE. It is renamed here UTE-GRE to emphasize that a conventional selective pulse like a sinc pulse can also be used for excitation. UTE-GRE was implemented on clinical 3T and human knee data were acquired focusing on menisci. White and red zones were differentiated without contrast agent or image subtraction.